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With some corporate environments going from "tokenmaxxing at all costs" to now setting strict token budgets for agentic development: How is one supposed to adhere to a managerial /…

About 6 months ago I joined a new team within a top ten F500 company. My new boss strictly mandated AI use with the key principle being: "You shouldn't be manually writing any code…

Internally transferred to a new team in a top-10 F500 company. This team is pushing incredibly hard to be seen as "AI-First" & is very opinionated about what other teams should be …

I just moved to a new team in my company that prides itself on being "AI-First". The work is a relatively new project that was stood up by a small team of two developers (both of w…

I'm 3.5 years into my career. I was able to enjoy the first 10 months of it ignorant of the storm LLMs / agentic development would bring. The never ending promise of my job being a…

I feel like no one talks about how people who are "supposed to be reviewing the LLM outputs, guiding the agents, etc.", actually acquire the knowledge to do a decent job. When I se…

> It still requires a technical person to use these things effectively. I feel like few people critically think about how technical skill gets acquired in the age of LLMs. Statemen…

First off, what you shared is cool, thank you. Especially considering it captures problems I need to address (token limitations, context transfer, managing how agents interact & ex…

I'm almost 4 years into my career as a software engineer. Before widespread LLM adoption I had to do a lot of research when writing code. When replacing SWEs in the future gets dis…

My experience working at a large F500 company: A non-technical PM asked me (an early career SWE) to develop an agentic pipeline / tool that could ingest 1000+ COBOL programs relate…